Impressive renovation project of what once was the largest industrial complex in the world, and notorious for its pollution (in the 1970´s the river itself even caught fire!). The renovation by architect William McDonough implemented the worlds largest vegetation roof and the penetration of daylight into the assembly halls.
The Ford Motor Company Rouge plant was inaugurated in Dearborn (Detroit) Michigan in 1917, employed 100.000 people at its peak and was renovated in 2002.
www.thehenryford.org/rouge/regeneration.asp
http://info.detnews.com/history/story/index.cfm?id=189&category=business
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Rouge_Plant
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/10510
www.mcdonoughpartners.com/projects/ford-dtp/
www.ford.com/en/goodWorks/environment/cleanerManufacturing/rougeRenovation.htm
Coletivo de artistas plásticos em São Paulo que têm organizado intervenções urbanas para discutir gentrificação, trabalho informal etc.
Citizen organisation in Berlin defends the unique qualities of the abandoned railway terrains Gleisdreieck, which is currently being re-planned for mixed use and a public park.
O artigo discute alguns projetos urbanos que enfocam novos desafios apresentados na cidade contemporânea. Estes projetos operam nas condições-limite do território metropolitano fragmentado, suas bordas: vazios urbanos, terrain vague, brownfields.
BAHIA, Tarcísio. Ausência e presença arquitetônica na cidade contemporânea. Vitruvius arquitextos 51, Agosto 2004.